Originally titled Recycler, after the Los Angeles magazine of the same name, this has a keyboard player named Chance (Rory Cochrane) getting to tour with dub-pop band Future Pigeon and their lead singer Rocket (Beth Orton), as long as he finds his signature sound. It exists in a Molotron keyboard which gets stolen the night before the tour, which leads Chance and Ross Angeles (Ross Harris) through Los Angeles in a search to get it back.

With appearances by Beck, Hank 3, Jennifer Herrema from Royal Trux, Gregg Henry from Body Double, skateboard legend Mark Gonzales, Laura Prepon in her first role, former pro wrestler Joshua Ben-Gurion, that dog drummer Tony Maxwell, Elliot Smith and even Robosaurus, this was directed by Steve Hanft, who wrote it with Rossie Harris and Bob Stephenson. He directed Beck’s video for “Loser,” as well as Kill the Moonlight, another film about someone named Chance with a dream.

If you like ramshackle journeys through dark nights of the soul, well, good news. This is a good one to watch, if only to see Elliot Smith drive a bus.

You can watch this and many other films at CFF by buying a pass on their website. Over the next few days, I’ll be posting reviews and articles, as well as updating my Letterboxd list of watched films.